Conference+videos+March

This presentation gave a variety of ideas about sharing in the classroom. They talked about using posterous, but I have felt like I missed a step about how to post the content that was created during the workshop on to the site. I was hoping that students would be able to submit their comment and it would go to posterous to be viewed by the moderator to be allowed to post, I never was able to understand if this is how it works. Pixelpipe seems to be an intriguing site, but once again I did not feel like it did a good job explaining exactly what it i for. I am currently listening to a youtube video that discusses pixelpipe and it seems to be a very nice way to share to multiple places. Compfight seems to be a very good site to find creative common pictures so I do plan on using that for students. The one thing I would like to look into a little more is one of the attendees"ah-ha" moments was regarding the Google Calendar and how she plans on managing the schedules using this.
 * BW301 Simple Ideas for Powerful Sharing**


 * Google Apps for Learning, Teaching, and Productivity**

This presentation primarily dealt with the various apps that are available through Google. The first app they discuss in detail was Google Books, the presenter mentions the controversy behind this, but points out that Googles mission is to organize the worlds information. Google books allows you to look through a book without actually have it with you. Google Maps is another app they discussed. Perhaps the most interesting thing that I learned about Google maps is that it purchases the travel information from cell phone carriers so it has the ability to determine what traffic is like. The ability to actually mark the Google map with your own information is also very convenient. I realized that Google did a great job of finding information, but I had not realized how detailed it was when you examine the sidebar on the google website. You have teh ability to filter what you are looking for by selecting certain options from the sidebar. The conference mentioned the real time feed that you can view, but that must have been taken down. Google voice is another app that I have heard about that I feel is a great idea to use in education. I have tried setting up a Google voice account, but ended up stopping because I was not sure how I'd use it and I could not come up with a creative number. I recently downloaded the google search for my iPhone and I am really excited about taking a picture as a type of search, this also works well with students when they do not know how to spell certain things. Last thing they tlaked about was Google apps for education. I tried setting this up last year but ran into a problem because I did not own the domain. I have used google docs in the classroom and I feel it would be a great benefit for students to be able to use this. This may be something I have to look into for next year.